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Vanity Fair editor to speak

Posted November 6, 2008; 05:24 p.m.

by Staff

Todd Purdum, a 1982 Princeton graduate who is national editor of Vanity Fair magazine, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in 101 McCormick Hall.

His address is titled "Journalism in the Nation's Service: An Impossible Dream?"

Purdum joined Vanity Fair in 2006 after 23 years at The New York Times, where he was a correspondent in the Washington bureau and a diplomatic and White House correspondent. He also served as the Times' Los Angeles bureau chief and as a metropolitan reporter and city hall bureau chief in New York.